Daniel Luzer

Last week the Federal Bureau of Investigation admitted that it tracked Howard Zinn, the leftist scholar who taught for many years at Boston University, from 1949 to 1974. According to the FBI, the organization has, released one file with three sections totaling 423 pages on Howard Zinn, a best selling radical historian, teacher, playwright, and […]

Georgia’s merit-based HOPE (Helping Outstanding Pupils Educationally) Scholarship, which covers full tuition and fees and a $150 per semester textbook allowance for all students who graduate from a Georgia high school in with a 3.0 GPA and attend a Georgia state school, is running into financial trouble. According to an article by Dave Williams in […]

One of the many overlooked things that make college complicated—along with registering for classes and dealing with institutional food—is finding housing. This is particularly difficult if students don’t have regular families supporting them back home. According to a piece by Larry Gordon in the Los Angeles Times, California’s public colleges are now giving housing preferences […]

Despite tuition freezes and calls for a new funding model, Missouri isn’t doing a very good job managing higher education spending, says a report by the state auditor. According to an Associated Press article by Chris Blank in Businessweek: The state Department of Higher Education should have been more involved in picking projects for a […]

To address a situation that appears intriguingly similar to the situation at Quinnipiac University, the American Association of University Women) has given almost $12,000 to the Women’s Law Project to help the organization with a lawsuit. According to an article by Wade Malcolm in The News Journal: Facing a gender discrimination lawsuit, Delaware State University […]

Texas might have to do some things a little differently with its public higher education system. A committee of businessmen and higher education leaders mandated by Republican Governor Rick Perry recently presented a report to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. According to an article by Melissa Ludwig in the San Antonio Express-News, the report […]

California gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown has some big ideas about how to improve public higher education in his state. According to an article by Seema Mehta in the Los Angeles Times: Brown said the state’s master plan for higher education, which was created in 1960 to assure every high school graduate would have access to […]

From the department of Things the Journalists Got Wrong comes news of the latest higher education lie. That’s the one about the decline in the number of low-income students going to college. It’s actually not true. The error comes from a July 7 Wall Street Journal article by Emmeline Zhao that warned, Fewer low- and […]

The Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) is pretty much essential for admission to medical school. Virtually all medical schools in the U.S. and Canada require applicants to submit MCAT scores for admission. Well not the Faculty of Medicine at Montreal’s McGill University. According to an article by Karen Seidman in the Montreal Gazette Beginning this […]

American college students are total drunks. That’s not news but, according to an article by Robert Preidt in USA Today, colleges don’t seem too worried about it. As Preidt writes, a professor of epidemiology at the University of Minnesota, Toben Nelson, recently conducted a survey of university administrators and, asked if they were following recommendations […]